Wind turbines in the town of Clinton, Clinton County.

New York Republican Reps. Mike Lawler, Andrew Garbarino and Nick LaLota voted for President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” knowing full well it would kill clean energy tax credits. Then, in a letter to Senate leaders, they begged the Senate to back off and save clean energy after all. That didn’t happen. The three New York reps chose politics over policy, and voted again to support the final bill.

And we will be paying the price for a generation.

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Lawmakers like Lawler love to talk about bringing back manufacturing jobs, but the Inflation Reduction Act actually did it. Our GOP House members are complicit in destroying, in the name of politics, one of the most forward-looking economic achievements in a generation — and setting back global climate progress.

Aside from the climate impacts, the Inflation Reduction Act’s

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